Freedom's Ring

JACQUELINE FOERTSCH is a professor of English and chair of the steering committee for Postwar Faculty Colloquium at the University of North Texas in Denton. She is the author of several books including American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present and Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America.

• Introduction: Freedom's Ring throughout the Post-WWII Decades1 Talking First and Shooting Later in the Black Power Era2 Nothing Left to Lose: Maximizing Liberties in the Late 1960s Free-for-All3 Tools of the Trade: Working Women and Radical Women in the Liberation EraConclusion: Postscript from the Present DayAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Hard fought, hardly equitable, and deeply contested, freedom remains a core concept in modern American national identity. Jacqueline Foertsch's lively and compelling Freedom's Ring traces how it rallied postwar Americans to fight for racial equality, personal liberation, and women's rights from the 1950s to the 1970s with profound results."— Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America"Jacqueline Foertsch's Freedom's Ring is a smart-minded and provocative inquiry into the literary legacy of the postwar Civil Rights era, the storied epoch from the 1950s to the 1970s that remains an inspiration to an ongoing struggle. Foertsch's cultural criticism is authoritative and insightful, her voice captivating and passionate, and her subject timelier than ever."— Thomas Doherty, author of Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century"The English professor explores the role of 'freedom' and 'equality' in literature of major rights-seeking movements from the 1960s and 1970s."— North Texan